Non-refillable bottle.



M. SWITZBR & J. D. LAOROIX. NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 3, 1912.

1,083,953, Patented Jan. 13,}914.

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UNITED STATEZ STALTENT OFFICE.

MAURICE SWITZER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., AND JOSEPH I). LACROIX, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNORS, IBY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, OF ONE-HALF TO THE WILSON DISTILLING COMPANY, OF NEW" YORK, N. Y., A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY, AND ONE-HALF TO HERMAN ELLIS, 0]? NEW YORK, N. Y.

NON-REFILLABLE BOTTLE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. 13,1914.

Original application filed November 7, 1910, Serial No. 591,064. Divided and this application filed January 3, 1912. Serial No. 669,161.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, MAURICE Swrrzun and Josnrii D. LACROIX, citizens of the United States, residing at New York, in the county and State of New York, and Baltimore, Maryland, respectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Non-Refillable Bottles, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompanying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to improvements in non-refillable bottles, and in particular to a non-refillable bottle containing baffledevices and valve mechanism in the neck thereof for the purpose of preventing refilling to any profitable extent by any of 1 the methods usually resorted to, while at the same time permitting of a ready outflow of the liquid contents in emptying the bottle.

The present invention is shown and described in connection with bafile-devices and valve mechanism for non-refillable bottles such as is disclosed in our application for U. S. Letters Patent, Serial No. 591,054t, filed Nov. 7 1910, of which the present application is a division.

As the specific construction of valve mechanism and battle-device per se constitutes no part of the present invention, it is to be understood that the description of the said valve mechanism and battle-device hereinafter is merely for the purpose of explaining the features which constitute the present invention.

The present invention, broadly considered, comprises a bottle neck formed of a plurality of parts separately constructed and then united in a specific manner to form an integral bottle-neck.

It has been common in the art heretofore to make bottle-necks of a plurality of parts and then to unite these parts by various means, such, for example, as screw-threads or cement, but in all these prior methods it has been found to be necessary to provide rather large constructions at the point of contact or connection in order to give sulficient strength. Such old methods when ap plied to the parts of a bottle-neck led to a heavy and clumsy construction which materially detracted from the appearance of the bottle.

It is the purpose of the present invent-ion to avoid these and other disadvantages, obvious to those skilled in the art, whereby it becomes possible to make a bottle neck of a graceful and pleasing appearance, of that type containing a battle-device and valve mechanism which, for assembling, requires a bottle neck prehminarlly 111 a plurality of parts, and yet to have the completed article j of suiiicient strength.

The invention will now be described in connection with the accompanying drawings and then particularly pointed out in the a claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a vertical elevation of a bottle equipped with the present invention. Fig. 2 is a vertical section of the same. Fig. 3 is a View similar to Fig. 2, with the bottle tilted to a pouring position. Figs. 1, 5, 6 and 7 are sections on the lines l, 5, 6, 7, respectively, of Fig. 2; and Fig. 8 is a side elevation of part of the bottle neck.

Referring to said drawings, (t represents the bottle body, terminating at its upper end in a neck portion 5, to which is permanently secured by cement and otherwise, as hereinafter described, a neck containing the valve and valve-controlling mechanism by which the bottle is rendered nonrefillable, and serving to illustrate one type of such mechanism as may be used with the present invention. The neck is, in the process of manufacture, made up of two parts 0, (Z, of porcelain, which after the insertion of the interior mechanism, are united by an outer film c of enamel and the interlocking engagement of their abutting and correspondingly shouldered edges, so that the neck becomes in effeet a unit or integral. The arrangement of the abutting edges here illustrated is such as to present a smooth joint on the exterior of the bottle neck before the application of the enamel. The part 0 contains a valve seat f, of porcelain, chamfered at its lower outer edge to fit a correspondingly shaped shoulder provided by the inner up per edge of the neck portion 6 of the bottle body a, and at its upper edge fitting into a recess 5/ in the lower end of part 0, a hollow inverted cup-shaped valve 71-, preferably of porcelain, resting on this valve-seat; an approximately pear-shaped valve seating weight 2', of glass or porcelain, resting sidewise on the upper end of the valve 72., and a baffle j, which, among other things, limits the movement of the weight 2'; integral vertical ribs 73 also being formed in the neck part c for guiding the valve it in its vertical or opening and closing movements. Bafiie j, which is integral with the neck portion d, closes the bottle neck except for a passage between it and the inner surface of the latter, into which, however, project two horizontal rows of alternating or staggered projections Z, m, which will permit the passage of the liquid contents of the bottle but will prevent the insert-ion of a wire or the like sufliciently far into the bottle neck to tamper with the valve h or weight 2'. At the ends of each projection Z, m, are vertical ribs n. which it is obvious will engage the end of any wire or the like inserted in the bottle neck and prevent further downward movement thereof. The insertion of a wire or the like is still further guarded against by the provision of a shoulder 0 in the neckportion 0 projecting inwardly beneath the projections Z, m, so that a wire can not be passed between the outer ends of said projections and the inner surface of the neck into the lower end of part 0 containing the valve h. Baiiie is also provided at its lower end with a recess 19 forming a pocket for the accommodation of weight 2', this recess and the weight 2', valve h, and seat f being of such size and so arranged relatively to each other as to provide for free rocking movement of said weight, and also a limited movement thereof, and of valve h, longitudinally of the bottle neck.

lVhile the bottle is in an erect position, the valve h and weight 2' will occupy the positions in which they are shown in Fig. 2, with the valve it held to its seat by its own weight and that of weight 2'. hen, however, the bottle is tilted to pour out some of its contents, and passes from a horizon tal position to the partially inverted position shown in Fig. 4:, the valve, relieved of the weight of weight 2', which has moved into the recess p, and aided by the pressure of the liquid in the bottle, will be unseated and assume the position in which it is shown in Fig. 4.

On turning the bottle upward before it reaches a horizontal position, the weight 2', rocking in recess 79 and moving downward at right angles to the bottle neck, will, as the liquid recedes from the bottle neck, force the valve h to its seat, aided, of course, by the weight of the valve itself.

Referring now to the essential feature of the present invention; it will be noted that the bottle neck, as hereinbefore stated, is made of two parts 0, (2, both of porcelain, thus permitting the batlie plate or plug j or other baffle device to be made integral with the part d. lVhen these two parts 0 and d are assembled they are coated exteriorly with a layer of enamel of sufficient thickness, and then baked, with the result that said two parts are securely united. In the specific embodiment of the invention here disclosed, therefore, the two sections of the bottle neck are rigidly held together by a continuous body of enamel enveloping the bottle neck and baked in place in such a manner as to cover the joint between the abutting edges of the neck sections and to extend upwardly and downwardly on both sides of said joint. This baked layeriform body of enamel linking the neck sections together is substantially as resistant to ordinary hard usage as the other materials of the bottle neck; and moreover, since the enamel layer is baked in situ it becomes practically integrally united to the ceramic materials of which the bottle sections are composed. This arrangement affords a union of the neck sections into a structure which, as shown in Fig. 1, has the appearance of being integral, and which is integral for all practical purposes.

The bottle neck, thus formed, is ready for the introduction of the valve mechanism, such, for example, as the weight 11, valve h, and valve seat f, illustrated in the drawings, and then, after suitable testing of this valve mechanism, the neck and its interior devices may be attached to the body of the bottle in any suitable way. In the present device the neck is secured to the bottle body a by a collar r of suitable metal inclosing the upper end of the neck portion 6 of the bottle body and the lower portion of the neck member 0, both of which portions are provided with circumferential indentations or recesses, into which the metal of collar 9* is forced or spun by a suitable tool, it being understood that the circumferential indentations must not constitute screw threads as this would result in an inferior and unsafe arrangement. To prevent leakage, a gasket 8 of suitable material is interposed between the abutting edges of the neck portion 6 and the neck member 0.

Having thus fully described the invention, what is claimed is- 1. In a non-refillable bottle, the combination, with the bottle body, of a bottle neck suitably secured thereto and comprising two parts interlocked at their meeting edges and secured together by a film of baked enamel, the lower part containing a valve chamber and the upper one a baffie device for preventing insertion of a wire or the like into the valve chamber.

2. In a non-refillable bottle, the combination, with a bottle body, of a bottle neck containing a valve mechanism and baffle device, substantially of the type described, said bottle neck comprising two parts having interlocking meeting edges, and a baked-on film of enamel closing the joint of the two neck portions and integral with each.

3. In a non-refillable bottle, the combination, with a bottle body, of a bottle neck suitably united to said body and comprising two neck sections having abutting edges, and a layeriform body of enamel or the like covering the joint between said abutting edges and in substantially integral union with both said bottle sections.

4. In a non-refillable bottle, the combination, with a bottle body, of a bottle neck suitably united to said body and comprising two neck sections having abutting and interlocking edges presenting a smooth exterior joint, and a continuous section-linking layer of enamel enveloping said bottle neck and covering said joint, said enamel having been baked in situ and thereby united to both bottle sections.

5. In a non-refillable bottle, the combination, with a bottle body having annular indentations near its upper end, of a bottle neck having annular indentations near its lower end, a gasket arranged between the abutting portions of said neck and said body, and a metal collar engaging the indentations on both the body and the neck and thereby locking the parts together.

In testimony whereof, we have aifixed our respective signatures in the presence of witnesses, as follows:

MAURICE SVVITZER. JOSEPH D. LACROIX.

lVitnesses as to Maurice Switzer:

J. A. GRAVES, E. VANDERHOEF.

Witnesses as to Joseph D. Lacroixz M. C. MASSIE, J. H. Srecnns.

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